David Lee Roth Shared A Random Acoustic Cover Of “867-5309/Jenny”

Back in the early ’80s, David Lee Roth did not seem to care much for new wave music. His line about Elvis Costello — that critics like Costello because most of them look like him — is the kind of thing that haunts people in my profession to this day. At the time, Diamond Dave was Van Halen’s wildman lead singer, so he didn’t really have to worry about that stuff too much. Now, however, DLR’s wildman antics are mostly confined to his unhinged YouTube presence, and there’s nothing...

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